Radical Islam Watch: Boko Haram Violence Has Displaced 1.4 Million Children, U.N. Reports
“It’s truly alarming to see that children and women continue to be killed, abducted and used to carry bombs”
Half a million children have fled attacks from the Islamic militant group Boko Haram over the past five months, UNICEF said in a report released Friday.
The recent surge brings the total number of displaced children in northern Nigeria to 1.2 million — more than half of them are under the age of 5. A further 265,000 children have fled their homes in Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
Boko Haram has orchestrated a campaign of bombings, assassinations and abductions in Nigeria over the past few years. The group gained worldwide notoriety in April 2014 when it kidnapped more than 270 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok in northern Nigeria’s Borno state.
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